Amid the bustling traffic of the city, ordinary office worker Lin Yu's life was as dull as a program running exactly as designed. Then, by chance, he spent his meager savings on a mysterious jade pendant at an antiques market, and the gears of fate abruptly shifted.
A strange light burst from the pendant and swept him into chaos. Images of an ancient cultivation world flooded his mind like a tidal wave, and the Chaos Cultivation Art was forcibly branded deep within his soul. When he awoke from the chaos, his ordinary body had quietly transformed. With cultivation at the early Qi Refining stage, his strength had multiplied, and his senses were sharp enough to catch dust drifting in the wind.
At his nine-to-five office job, his thinking advanced by leaps and bounds, and he easily solved problems that had once stumped him. In the mountain forests on the edge of the city, spiritual energy nourished his inner vortex, letting him cultivate far faster than in the urban center. But the peace did not last. Two black-clad muggers became his first opponents after he stepped into the extraordinary realm. His spirit-infused punches and kicks easily drove them off, and showed him that beneath this seemingly ordinary city lurked hidden undercurrents.
The mysterious jade pendant's origins, the secrets of the Chaos Cultivation Art, cultivators concealed behind steel and concrete... Holding the key that changed his fate, Lin Yu embarks on his own path of urban cultivation, caught between ordinary life and extraordinary power. Ahead lies a smooth road to cultivation, rich with opportunity, or an unknown abyss full of danger? His story has only just begun.